I can't find information on Bosnia anywhere and I'm working on a paper for it so here are some questions...
What were the major developements during the War
Whos supported it, and who didnt (who sent troops?)
What was the Outcome
Why did the US get involved

Yeah, so if you feel like ranting and raving about this war, and can answer those questions, I'm all ears
Thanks for the Help
Tepha-

Use the power of google. I guarantee you that you will find way more info than you need with google.

The following link should provide some great information about Bosnia. Quite a few years ago I had an exchange student from Bosnia, and while I learned a great deal from her, I found this to be very useful. Perhaps you will also!
http://www.clintonpresidentialcenter...vo+War^Bosnia.
Good luck!

Stephanie Jackson

The war in Bosnia started with the clash of a few religious groups: Slavic Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. As these religious groups differed they grew apart and became very violent with the help of Slobodan Milosevic. Milosevic was a definite fan of genocide, so it seems, and I’m sure that’s not a positive influence on the people around him. I think this was another Iraq type issue, where we felt it was important to take a powerful and aggressive person out of control.

So, NATO sends in troops, some of them being American troops, who begin to train Muslim troops and supply them with weapons. In this war some technology is used such as electric maps, “robotic vehicles” (they look sort of like golf carts; not the typical sci-fi “robotic vehicles”), and apparently, we used “aerial mind-control broadcasts” on civilians and enemy troops in Bosnia. We also got smarter with defense by using such things as towed rollers to set off mines before troops moved into a certain area, Range Body Armor, and mine awareness training.

Well, after the war finally ends there are over 250,000 casualties and Bosnia pretty much hates us. I guess if an American ever wants to go to Bosnia, he/she would have to expect to be shot at as soon as he/she stepped foot on that soil. Fortunately tension between the three religious groups is apparently going down and our friend Mr. Milosevic is in jail and going on trial soon (if he doesn’t pass before then) which was pretty much the point of the war anyhow.

As I always say, I don’t really want to form an opinion on this war, just because I don’t know what little silly controversial issues could be behind it (i.e. we’re in Iraq supposedly just for the oil) but if I had to make a decision, I would say we went to Bosnia for a good reason. It’s good, though, this time that we went in through NATO instead of just going on our own terms, because it wasn’t an issue between America and Bosnia, it was a moral issue. It also doesn’t seem like we made very many enemies so it must have been a supported effort anyhow.

I'm answering out of memory, so bear with me.
1. Not sure, I know it was about SM (Slobadon Milosvich [sp?]) performing ethnic cleansing against Albanians.
2: It was supportrf by NATO, and several countries sent troops (I don't know which, other than the US) and I'm not sure about the UN.
3. It ended with the ethnic cleansing stopping, and SM is now in court for crimes against humanity.
4. We got involved to uphold NATO and stop awful war crimes from occuring Note: If you get an AV portion, get the opening sequence from the movie "The Hunted" with Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio del Toro, it shows some of the awful things that went on down there. It'd make for some good research too. Be warned, it has some very disturbing and violent shots.

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Are you interested just in Bosnia, or the wider Balkans? Just like most things, the story is complicated. Are you going to talk about Yugoslavia, Tito, Slovenia seceding in 1991 (I'm not sure about that date). Or the rise of Milosevic, historic ethnic tensions? I did a paper on the war in the Balkans several years ago, and from the little I did, I found it was extremely complicated. You can't discuss Bosnia alone...it's important to put it into context, especially with Croatia, Serbia and Kosovo.

hello,
to understand the war in bosnia you must understand all wars in ex-yougoslavia
I'm serb, and i was soldier in the serb army during the war in bosnia, the war in croatia and the war in kosovo.
(please accept my appologies for the mistakes, I dont speak american very well )
ex yougoslavia was composed with serbia,croatia,bosnia,slovenia,macedonia, montenegro
slovenia, macedonia, and croatia decided to go away, they didn't want to stay in yougoslavia, they want independance
for slovenia and macedonia there was not really a problem, but in croatia the first problem began :
in the south of croatia, 70% people was serbs and they didnt want to get away from yougoslavia, that was the first conflict between serbs and croats
Now, to understand what happened in Bosnia, you must know that in bosnia there are 3 ethnies, we have serbs,croats and Muslims* (warnning ! here it is not the religion but an ethnie called Muslims )
croats and serbs from bosnia, when they saw what happened in Croatia began to be scared, what will happened in Bosnia, and Muslims were scared too so a war began between the three etnies.
I have saw some body who said
"The war in Bosnia started with the clash of a few religious groups"
it is totally wrong ! this was never a question of religion (some serbs are muslims..)
"Milosevic was a definite fan of genocide"
Milosevic is in TPIY, and now, after two years, they didn't succeed ti prove something against him, in fact one of the genocide was in a city of bosnia called sarajevo, they have said that serbs have killed 8 000 men
recently they found that most of these men are still alive
somebody else have spoken about albanians, that is not in bosnia but in kosovo...

officially, american came to help the ethnie Musulman

i have just tried to give you the fact, if you want my opinion about the war in bosnia, about what american have done in bosnia and about how people living in bosnia perceive americans...

I would like to hear your opinion, but please be aware that Americans as a whole do not allow the opinions of other nations to rule our judgements. We do what we feel is right, which is not necessarily what is popular. The fact that a lot of foreigners hate us because we tried to stop ethnic clensing does not keep us up at night.

Ethnic clensing cannot be tolerated, period. There is no room for discussion. Sovereignty is irrelevant. An invasion was justified on that basis alone. Had Milosevic cooperated he could have cleared his name and removed our incentive for an invasion. Even if it later turns out that ethnic clensing had not occurred, we would still have been justified, because we had reason to believe at that time that it was occurring.

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But if you want some background feeling for the history behind modern events in the Balkans I suggest you read 'The Bridge Over the Drina' by Ivo Andric - a classic. Andric won the Nobel Prize for Literature (early 60s, I believe?), and this work was one of the main reasons for that success.

Rather than simply dismissing Milosevic as some genocidal maniac, I think it best to consider that he had aims which, through a form of 'power-play' not unheard of in other 'civilized' nations, he felt he might just achieve. Namely; out of the fragmentation of Yugoslavia to set-up a Greater Serbia by way of land-grabs in parts of Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina etc. Having the bulk of the former Yugoslav armed forces at his disposal he had the stronger hand in any ensuing conflict. Serb militias were set-up in Bosnia and these, supported by Milosevic and the Serb state (still styling itself, 'Yugoslavia') held the Bosnia-Herzegovina capital, Sarajevo, under a horrific siege.

The slaughter of the 8,000 took place in Srebinica, not Sarajevo. Other atrocities took place (notably by Croats on Serbs) but international opinion is pretty much universal in acknowledging that Bosnia was blameless in this; in so far as it was defending its state from external forces inciting civil unrest for the purposes of destabilising and thereby destroying the state.

But read Andric anyway, just for the pure joy of the writing!

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America were not the only ones who went, Britain went too. My Uncle was in the army at the time and he was sent down there as a 'peacekeeper'. He has told me that the whole time he was there the civilians never shot at him once and he also believes that the British soldiers there were liked especially compared to the Americans. My Uncle believes this is because the American soldiers never spoke to the civilians and were always in either heavily armoured vehicles or covered from head to foot in armour whereas the British although armed at all times were never as hostile. They regularly conversed with the locals and they rarely patrolled in full armour. They actively sought to make friends with the civilians and they never gave the impression they were scared, as the Americans with their tanks and armour did, though they always carried guns.

However, my Uncle may be terribly wrong and Bosnians may hate the British as well.

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